Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce an exciting workshop: “
The Light of Love: Bhoja’s
Śṛṅgāraprakāśa and South Indic Poetics.” We plan to meet and read together for the first time this coming summer (June 16-25) in the
Higher Education School of Procida (under the auspices of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”), just off the coast from Naples. Our plan is simply to sit and read texts of southern (that is, south of Kashmir) ālaṅkārikas, with a special focus on Bhojadeva, but looking at works by Daṇḍin, Appayya Dīkṣita, Keśavdās (in Braj) and others. We hope that this would be the first in a series of such meetings that focuses on Bhoja, his milieu, and his successors. We are gathering a team of about 20 people who will meet and read daily. The readings will be led by ourselves along with Whitney Cox, Lawrence McCrea, and Andrew Ollett. At the moment, we are still finalizing the budget, so we cannot make any commitments, but we hope very much that we will be able to cover the accommodation costs for 9 nights for those joining the reading sessions, with a preference for graduate students and postdocs. Those of you who might like to join: please send an email of interest that briefly states what might lead you to join this group, what your language background is, and who might serve as a reference. Please also mention if you can stay for the entire duration.
Emails should be sent by May 10 to:
indianaestheticsprocida@gmail.com.
With many thanks,
Stefania Cavaliere, Yigal Bronner, and David Shulman